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...fisticuffs unless kept under control. "It's a new game every night," Hannon says. "I know the teams that run the fast break and know that I have to get down the court." He points out that there are many teams that press and zone-press right off the bat, forcing officials to monitor swarming action at both ends of the court...
...baseball, a sports reporter can sense the meaning of an outfielder's single step to the left or right as a new man comes to bat, and he would be thumbed out of his job in two days if he patently did not know what he was writing about. Ditto the drama critic or the police reporter. Yet general-assignment reporters plunge into issues that mean life or death for management, employees, customers-even a community-without the slightest sense of business perspective...
NELSON ("Rocky Baby") ROCKEFELLER, veteran. Stated when promoted to club, "I'm all for the team," only to discover team wasn't for him; was told five times to go play with somebody else; still technically on team but only calls the ball names, won't touch it with bat or glove; teammates call him their pet rock...
Brayton was on the mound that day, and Fred Lynn, also a college senior, was seventh at bat. Rozzie struck him out. Lynn came up two more times and never got on base; Brayton pitched "well enough to win," said the Harvard coach. But the USC pitcher pitched better, and Harvard lost, 4-1. The team dropped the clincher to Georgia Southern the following day and went back to Cambridge...
...over. In 1897, a London theatrical manager named Bram Stoker published a book called Dracula. It became the most popular story of the supernatural ever written. Uninformed about vampires, Stoker baldly invented his own lore of the undead-how a vampire changes at will into a wolf or a bat, cringes in terror at the sight of a Christian cross, and lives forever unless a wooden stake is driven through its heart...